'4 Ways To Test Your Business Idea In An Afternoon' by @DevSEOChat

My first business ideas were absolutely horrible. It wasn’t that they weren’t going to work for one or two small reasons, there were massive holes in the logic-of-how-this-is-ever-going-to-make-anyone-any-money-ever. I built an algorithm that tried to predict someone’s personality by looking at their tweets. I considered founding a government defense contracting company to bid on defense contracts. I thought about trying to visually map out all data on Wikipedia. You get the picture. Over time though, I began to see patterns in these bad ideas. I started to realize why so many successful people preach about the power of persistence and taking action. If you just continue trying stuff, you’re going to start building patterns in your mind of the types of things that work and don’t work. It’s as simple as that. Today things aren’t quite as frustrating. I’ve built a couple of ...